Japan Bank Consortium launches its Ripple-powered payment app

Japan has finally given the green light to the Japan Bank Consortium to launch its Ripple-powered payments app for Android and iOS. The news comes straight from Ripple themselves. “The Japan Bank Consortium launched MoneyTap today, a Ripple-powered payments app to offer real time settlement for domestic payments in Japan,” the company wrote on Twitter. But before you scream out “mass adoption” in triumph, it is worth pointing out that the app won’t process cryptocurrency-based payments. Instead, it will merely utilize Ripple’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) to facilitate payments between banks and institutions. For the record, Money Tap is developed…